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[afuna]

This morning, I wanted breakfast, but I was too lazy to cook, and I couldn't find anyone else to cook for me. So I wandered around the kitchen picking up random things, and came up with grated carrot + grated cheese on a sourdough cracker.

Of course, I would manage to injure myself on a kitchen implement that I thought was safer than a knife. I have a deep, not-very-painful cut on the back of my right middle finger. I am the only klutz I know who can manage to injure herself with a grater!

Verdict on the food: good enough! the raw carrots are sweet, the cheese is salty, the sourdough is savory, and they all don't clash
Verdict on the preparation: needs more work (and less fingers in the way)

Comments

[thorfinn]

Naah, I have a thing about kitchen knives - I have proper super expensive chef's ones, and a giant proper chinese cleaver and all... and I've injured myself way more often with a grater than with a knife. :-)

Graters are dangerous! Knives are perfectly safe! ;-)

[afuna]

Based on our combined anecdata, I concur and hereby declare it a natural law!

[takemyrevolution]

One time I managed to cut my finger on the plastic lid to a package of paper baking cups. I'm that talented.

[afuna]

Ouch! That does take talent -- my sympathies!

(mmm cupcakes)

[aveleh]

oh, sweetie, no. The grater is totally the most dangerous cutting instrument in the kitchen.

[afuna]

Oh no, seriously? And not just because I injured myself with it? :-(

[oona]

AGREED! They are LETHAL! Stay far far away from them. That's why they make packages of grated cheese at the market.

[afuna]

I have never seen those! Just sliced ones.

Hmm, maybe I should look harder.

[starlurker]

I'm OK with graters; peelers are my mortal enemy. *shudders*

I've had something similar to what you described above, oddly enough, with the difference being sweet potato mash instead of carrots. Not bad, but it was better when I substituted the cheddar I tried initially with cream cheese - yum!

[oona]

OMG! Peelers! I totally blocked those. I had to quit cooking years ago because of peelers and graters. :O

[starlurker]

Yeah, they're deceptively dangerous, but they look like such friendly kitchen implements. My current one is pastel blue and it looks like a child's toy, but it's like a ninja in the kitchen tool arsenal.

[afuna]

Oh that sounds good. Hmm, you know, sweet potato mash + cheese sounds like it would taste a great deal like some of the kakanin... those are rice-based usually, but there are some that use cassava, so :D

Will think about it if I can get ingredients!

[rho]

I've grated my finger in the past as well.

[yvi]

I do that all the time :/

[azurelunatic]

I believe there is a painful story of synecdochic vs. grater from about a year back.

[miome]

I've left some skin on the grater more than once! I've heard mandolin are more dangerous, but I've never owned one.

[afuna]

Wow, so it turns out I was wrong, and graters are dangerous! I'm starting to realize that they're like a hundred tiny knives raised at an angle to face you, and ready to BITE YOU.

Now I'm scared of them ahahaha.